Boeing received a contract in 2009 to fit the weapon on the U.S.'s B-2 Stealth Bomber.
It would have been virtually unseeable on radar, an oceangoing version of our Stealth bomber.
The GAO reported finding serious technical problems with the testing and production of the stealth bomber.
The company is led by retired aerospace scientists who helped develop the Stealth bomber, Gulfstream II and Comanche helicopter.
The drone is a wing-shaped aircraft, like the stealth bomber, a design that is supposed to make it less visible to radar.
It would be like a giant stealth bomber, with the whole fuselage integrated with the wings, rather than a tube with wings sticking out.
The idea is a straightforward one: The Bush White House and Pentagon have made a relatively concerted effort to obtain the funding required for the B-2 Stealth bomber.
The B-2 stealth bomber, although expensive, can nonetheless save money.
In several respects, such as the presence of the B-2 stealth bomber, the availability of large stocks of precision weapons, the improvements in digital communications, and the increased numbers of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), it was a much better force.
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The Massachusetts senator voted against defense appropriations bills that included money for weapons such as the Patriot missile, the Tomahawk cruise missile and the B-2 stealth bomber -- all of which military leaders say have become integral to the U.S. force and were crucial to winning the 1991 Gulf war and last year's war in Iraq.
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In recent weeks, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to sharply reduce the amounts requested for the rail-mobile MX and the road-mobile Midgetman missile, for the B-2 "Stealth" bomber and the advanced cruise missile, and for the Strategic Defense Initiative in the FY1990 Defense authorization bill.
Not to be outdone, UK-based Stealth Electric Bikes recently released the Bomber, a burly electric bike that would fit in well with the Dark Knight's fleet of stealthy vehicles.
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